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HardwareX provides interviews and deep-dives with scientists and leading experts in open-source hardware. Produced for the journal HardwareX from Elsevier Publishing Company.
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S5E1 Dangerous Floods: Scaling river levels monitoring in South Eat Asia with open-source
Increased evaporation leads to increased precipitation. Warming at nearly twice the rate of the global average, Asia is increasingly prone to heavy rainfall and flooding. While monitoring river…
S4E8 Bench-top Biotechnology: Advancing bioprocessing with open source
As tools at the forefront of innovation in medicine and biotechnology, bioreactors are increasingly taking centre stage in research facilities and industrial labs alike. From acting as the…
S4E7 Open Hardware Talks: Is space a commons?
Space is busier than ever before.In the latest edition of the global space race, private actors have joined the game. But space as the next frontier for businesses comes at a price. As debris in…
S4E6 Under the Microscope: An open-source approach to upcycling
As the right to repair gained political momentum, it obliged companies to share design files and repair guides with every new device. But what about the right to upcycle older technologies?With the…
S4E5 Open Hardware Talks: Is Open-source 'Disrupting' MedTech? Ft. OpenFlexure, OSI2. and Openinsulin.
MedTech has an accessibility problem. Life-saving medicine, groundbreaking diagnostics technologies and much-needed lab equipment at the hands of profit-driven companies and oligopolies. What are the…
S4E5 Combatting Chronic Wounds: Elevating patient care in Nepal through open-source technology
How can we elevate life quality for patients in some of the world's most underserved regions?Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) is a proven and efficient method for treating chronic wounds. This…
S4E4 Open Hardware Talks: How To NOT Reinvent the Wheel
Open Hardware Talks is back. This series invites interdisciplinary experts and advocates to a roundtable discussion on the most relevant topics in open-source hardware.Discoverability: How To NOT…
S4E3 Reducing CO2: Using open-source technologies to scale the power of nature
Much like plants can turn carbon into energy, researchers have been striving to scale the potential of photocatalytic CO2 reduction. Promising as the technology may be, little progress has been made…
S4E2 Tagging 6000 Bees: An Open-source System for Species Monitoring
Did you know that honey bees dance?When honey bees return to the colony from foraging, they share info about their journey with their fellow honey bees by dancing. Besides getting the boogie on,…
S4E1 Democratising Air Quality: An Open-source Solution to Filling Data Gaps in the Global South
The advancement of low-cost sensors has sparked a boom in air quality monitoring devices. From backpack add-ons to citizen bicycles, air quality devices are enabling citizens to get involved in…
S3E7 Building A Better Mousetrap: Scaling animal wellbeing with open-source hardware
What if research labs didn't have to reinvent the wheel all the time?Rodents like mice and rats play a pivotal role in neuroscientific research. Through a process known as 'head fixation', scientists…
S3E7 A Co-benefits Approach: Preserving more than one species with open-source hardware
Did you know that our understanding of basic functions such as memory, learning and sleep is largely thanks to a giant sea slug? For more than 50 years, Aplysia Californica, a type of slug also known…
S3E6 Microwaves Against Malaria: Life-saving technologies and the question of patenting.
Urgent needs require urgent solutions, but is open-source always the answer?The UN aims to eradicate malaria in all countries by 2030. However, in some parts of the world, incidents are increasing as…
S3E5 High-tech Prosthetics: Granting locomotion to all with open-source robotics.
How inclusive are advanced prosthetics technologies?The global demand for prosthetics and orthotics is only expected to rise. Yet, access to affordable and innovative solutions varies greatly at…
S3E4 Drones for Data Gathering: How open-source hardware is making environmental research more viable
What does it take to make research catch up with climate change? The Arctic regions hold crucial information about the environmental impact of rising temperatures. Calving glaciers and treacherous…
S3E3 The Future of Food: (Re)growing vertical farming with open-source automation
Why did high-tech farming go bust?Vertical Farming was one of the big new technologies of the early 2010s. By growing crops vertically with less water and no pesticides, big vertical farms promised…
S3E2 Open Hardware Talks: Validating openness (with OSHWA and Open Source Ecology Germany)
Welcome to a new HardwareX podcast series: Open Hardware Talks.In addition to our regular episodes exploring open-source hardware projects, we're launching a new deep-dive series. Open Hardware Talks…
S3E1 From Gaza to Ukraine: Exploring the Glia open-source tourniquet and scaling decentralised manufacturing during conflict
How can we make life-saving medical equipment more accessible in areas under blockade, with low infrastructure, or with limited resources?In a time where almost every region in the world is seeing a…
HILO Studio for Innovations in Textile Manufacturing (with Sara Diaz Rodriguez, Natalija Krasnoperova, and Lukas Schattenhofer from Berlin, Germany)
In this episode, we talk to the creators of Studio HILO that offers open source technologies for local yarn production, along with remote workshops and vocational training to facilitate user-driven…
S2E4 Music Composition and Environmental Sensing (with Chet Udell)
In this fourth episode of HardwareX Season 2 podcasts, our guest is Chet Udell who is an Assistant Professor of Biological and Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University (USA). Dr. Udell is…
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HardwareX Podcasts has published 31 episodes since October 2021, covering topics in Technology.
HardwareX Podcasts is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 26m.
